Victor Robinson: My name is, uh, Victor Robinson,
Victor Robinson: and I'm from Washington DC
Victor Robinson: Region Seven. And accessibility
Victor Robinson: at my place in DC is a little
Victor Robinson: poor. Um, the region, the poll,
Victor Robinson: the poll that I go to is not too
Victor Robinson: accessible. I say that the poll
Victor Robinson: that I go to is not accessible
Victor Robinson: because if they have a police
Victor Robinson: department that has an
Victor Robinson: accessible door for a person in
Victor Robinson: a wheelchair and for a person
Victor Robinson: who uses crutches or a walker,
Victor Robinson: why do they have to go upstairs
Victor Robinson: and why don't they have a ramp
Victor Robinson: up front in the front, in the
Victor Robinson: main doorway? They had to go
Victor Robinson: through the front doors of these
Victor Robinson: own polls. And they could not
Victor Robinson: even get through the doors.
Victor Robinson: When the person was trying to
Victor Robinson: get through the door, the, in a
Victor Robinson: wheelchair, they could not even
Victor Robinson: get through it because the door
Victor Robinson: was too small or they couldn't
Victor Robinson: even fit through the door
Victor Robinson: because you say that the, the
Victor Robinson: chair was too big or the person
Victor Robinson: w-, had to get out their chair
Victor Robinson: to go to the, um, to the machine.
Victor Robinson: And that was a very poor rating
Victor Robinson: on their, on their side.
Katie Griffith: My name is Katie Griffith and
Katie Griffith: I'm from Gowan, Arizona. Uh,
Katie Griffith: when I voted in the last
Katie Griffith: election they didn't know how to
Katie Griffith: use the, um, touchscreen and
Katie Griffith: told me that, um, I wouldn't be
Katie Griffith: able to vote by myself and that
Katie Griffith: somebody would have to help me.
Katie Griffith: And they were looking over, uh,
Katie Griffith: my shoulder and trying to see
Katie Griffith: who I was voting for so I filed
Katie Griffith: a complaint with the Arizona
Katie Griffith: Center f-, for Disability Law.
Katie Griffith:
Darien: My name is Darien and I'm from
Darien: Willimantic, Connecticut. Um,
Darien: where I am, where I live, uh,
Darien: accessibility is pretty good.
Darien: They have it at the Elks Club,
Darien: and it, it's good there. And
Darien: they vote at the schools, and
Darien: the, the accessibility is good
Darien: there, too.
Lauren: My, hello, my name is Lauren.
Lauren: I'm from Kansas, Missouri. Um,
Lauren: um, my, my voting precinct is
Lauren: very accessible 'cause it's my,
Lauren: um, it's my own middle school.
Lauren: And it's like really accessible.
Lauren: They got handicapped doors and
Lauren: everything, and they re-, they
Lauren: rebuilt portions of it. So, it's
Lauren: really handicapped accessible. I
Lauren: don't have a problem with the
Lauren: handicap accessible part.
Jay Dashefski: This is Jay Dashefski. I am from
Jay Dashefski: Phoenix, Arizona, and then I
Jay Dashefski: moved to Scottsdale, Arizona. A-,
Jay Dashefski: as I said earlier, I, I, I moved
Jay Dashefski: when I was 23, moved, um, while
Jay Dashefski: I was in college. Um, the, so I
Jay Dashefski: did more voting from home after
Jay Dashefski: I had moved. I, I went to my
Jay Dashefski: polling place that's near my
Jay Dashefski: current house. It's a school. It
Jay Dashefski: is very accessible. Um, the
Jay Dashefski: polling place by my old house,
Jay Dashefski: there was a church and there was
Jay Dashefski: a school. And one of the, one of
Jay Dashefski: the schools is actually where I
Jay Dashefski: attended, um, elementary school.
Jay Dashefski: And, um, that was after the, um,
Jay Dashefski: the, um, um, Rehab Act of 1973,
Jay Dashefski: too, y-, um, and also a bit
Jay Dashefski: after the ADA of 1990. But both
Jay Dashefski: the church and the schools, they
Jay Dashefski: were accessible. Everything was
Jay Dashefski: accessible. Um, and yes. That's
Jay Dashefski: it.
Sheree Natole: Hi. My name is Sheree Natole and
Sheree Natole: I'm from Atlanta, Georgia. What
Sheree Natole: is accessibility like where I go
Sheree Natole: to vote? Actually, um, the city
Sheree Natole: of Atlanta is very accessible.
Sheree Natole: Um, you know, the, the hardest
Sheree Natole: part is dealing with the
Sheree Natole: elevator, you know,
Sheree Natole: because a lot of people go, you
Sheree Natole: know, to vote. And, um, so you
Sheree Natole: have to, you know, wait on an
Sheree Natole: elevator. But it's very
Sheree Natole: accessible in Atlanta. But I do
Sheree Natole: know, working with advocates
Sheree Natole: around my state, that there has
Sheree Natole: been issues of polls not being
Sheree Natole: accessible enough. And so, you
Sheree Natole: know, i-, but the great thing is
Sheree Natole: once you bring that to a, to the
Sheree Natole: attention of the people in the
Sheree Natole: register's office in, for the
Sheree Natole: county, because in Georgia it's
Sheree Natole: a county-by-county thing, they
Sheree Natole: get on it, and they fix it. You
Sheree Natole: know? Very rarely we had to,
Sheree Natole: you know, like get a lawyer
Sheree Natole: involved. You know? Usually all
Sheree Natole: you got to do is just bring it
Sheree Natole: to the attention of the
Sheree Natole: secretary of state, and it gets
Sheree Natole: sorted out. But somebody's got
Sheree Natole: to take the time to make that
Sheree Natole: phone call. You know? So it's
Sheree Natole: important to get involved.
Nathaniel Clark: My name is Nathaniel Clark. I am
Nathaniel Clark: from Waseca, Minnesota. And the
Nathaniel Clark: place where I vote is at a
Nathaniel Clark: church, is my polling place. And
Nathaniel Clark: yes, it's easy for people to
Nathaniel Clark: vote. Yes, the people there are
Nathaniel Clark: nice to us to help each other,
Nathaniel Clark: even for people with
Nathaniel Clark: disabilities, too, as well. And,
Nathaniel Clark: but the ba-, sad thing is that,
Nathaniel Clark: um, where the polls are, people
Nathaniel Clark: that are in a wheelchair can't
Nathaniel Clark: get to the polls. And, um, um,
Nathaniel Clark: it'd be hard for them to see or
Nathaniel Clark: to write or to vote on so they
Nathaniel Clark: need m-, more help. And also, I
Nathaniel Clark: think that people that can't
Nathaniel Clark: read should ask for help and
Nathaniel Clark: stand up for their selves.
Rob Webb: My name is Rob Webb. I'm from
Rob Webb: Virgin-, Petersburg, Virginia,
Rob Webb: Petersburg, Virginia Beach on
Rob Webb: the present. And I think what
Rob Webb: the, like you said, um, the
Rob Webb: voting I think is real good but, '
Rob Webb: cause I've been here a lot of
Rob Webb: people, they know that they,
Rob Webb: it's accessible for handicap
Rob Webb: parking and the ramps and they
Rob Webb: can get to them and into the
Rob Webb: school. They go right through
Rob Webb: the cafeteria, and you can go
Rob Webb: right into the door and vote.
Rob Webb: That's a lot easier than, wh-,
Rob Webb: what it used to be. Now I know
Rob Webb: the school board has, n-, did a
Rob Webb: lot of changes with the new
Rob Webb: schools. They did a lot more, d-,
Rob Webb: with the ADA law would, as I
Rob Webb: said, to things a
Rob Webb: little wider for wheelchair and
Rob Webb: people who can get through them.
Rob Webb: I think it's a lot better.
Samuel Jenkins: My name is Samuel Jenkins, and
Samuel Jenkins: I'm from Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Samuel Jenkins: And, and, and the voting, and
Samuel Jenkins: the experience, the voting
Samuel Jenkins: accessibility where I vote, what
Samuel Jenkins: I vote at, is very reasonable
Samuel Jenkins: for people with disabilities.
Samuel Jenkins: And people can get in and out.
Samuel Jenkins: And if they need assistance
Samuel Jenkins: there's someone to assist the
Samuel Jenkins: people with developmental
Samuel Jenkins: disabilities.
Grant Nash: My name is Grant Nash, and I'm
Grant Nash: from Evanston, Wyoming. And
Grant Nash: where I vote, uh, i-, I, it has
Grant Nash: been at schools mostly. And,
Grant Nash: uh, but, you know, by law the
Grant Nash: schools have to be accessible,
Grant Nash: at least these days, I think.
Grant Nash: Where I voted, the schools have
Grant Nash: been outdated. Uh, but, uh, they,
Grant Nash: they do, the schools do have
Grant Nash: ramps and things like that, you
Grant Nash: know, 'cause, because they're,
Grant Nash: uh, mandated to have ramps.
Gail Gardiner: Hi. I'm Gail Gardiner, and I
Gail Gardiner: don't have to worry about that
Gail Gardiner: because we can, uh, vote at our
Gail Gardiner: home and, um, I have someone who
Gail Gardiner: helps me. But I get to choose
Gail Gardiner: who I want and what I want, mm.
Gail Gardiner: And so, but I do remember
Gail Gardiner: years ago that I went to a
Gail Gardiner: polling place. And the people,
Gail Gardiner: at the time I didn't realize
Gail Gardiner: that people weren't able to help
Gail Gardiner: you. Um, and I just learned that
Gail Gardiner: that is not a, a bu-, a thing
Gail Gardiner: they can help you with so I had
Gail Gardiner: to do it by myself and that was
Gail Gardiner: a little hard. But now I feel
Gail Gardiner: more comfortable and I can just
Gail Gardiner: do it with ease.